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Warning: this is an old version of RHEL5 kernel. For the latest version, see Download/kernel/rhel5/028stab057.2.

Changes

• re-based on the 2.6.18-53.1.19.EL5 Red Hat kernel
  • fixed CVE-2008-1669
  • fixed CVE-2008-1375
  • fixed CVE-2008-0007
  • fixed CVE-2006-6921
• updated 3w-9xxx driver to the 2.26.08.003 version (it now provides support for 3ware SAS 9690SA RAID controllers)
• fixed occasional CT stop error with message: "unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free"

[ See full changelog here… ]

RPMS

You need only one kernel RPM so please choose the appropriate one depending on your hardware:

• If your x86 (i686, IA32) machine has more than 4 GB of RAM, choose ovzkernel-PAE RPM.
• Otherwise, use the plain kernel RPM (i.e. ovzkernel).

For more info, see Kernel flavors.

x86 (i686, IA32)

IA64 (Itanium)

x86_64 (AMD64, EM64T)

Source RPM

Kernel patch

This patch is applicable to vanilla Linux 2.6.18 kernel (not to 2.6.18.y), available from kernel.org.

Configs

Official configs of this OpenVZ kernel used to build binary RPMS.

Archives

For other rhel5 kernel releases, see download/kernel/rhel5/Archives.

For other kernel branches, see download/kernel.